Teaching Reading Comprehension Based On Contextual Teaching And Learning At Seconnd Year Students of SMP At-Taqwa Bekasi

The objective of the research is to study the use of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) in teaching reading comprehension. The CTL gives some contributions in teaching learning activities, especially in teaching reading comprehension. This approach makes the students construct their understanding in reading text and in the final of study students can be increase their comprehension in what are the text they read. The writer takes the students of the second grade at SMP At-Taqwa Bekasi as a subject. There are two elements in efficient reading: speed and comprehension. Speed is very important in reading, but speed alone is not enough. It is possible to read very quickly and yet still not grasp the main points of a passage. Therefore, the teacher must have some objectives at encouraging and teaching the students not only to read more quickly, but at the same time to understand what they are reading and to select the essential parts of a passage. Reading comprehension is the process of understanding the message that the author is trying to convey. Very simply, it is making meaning from text at hand.1 Based on that definition, reading comprehension is viewed as a process subject to the same constraints as human memory and problem solving. In this skripsi discusses about the use of Contextual Teaching and Learning in teaching reading comprehension. By this teaching the students have to construct their understanding what they are reading and they have to know why they read that passage, because CTL helps the students relate subject matter content to real world situations and motivate them to make connections between knowledge and its applications to their lives as family members, citizens, and workers and engage in the hard work. Off course it needs the other components that make this process complete and will be success in teaching and learning activities in the classrooms